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America and the world is not yet on the proper trajectory.

Jerry Brown

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Jerry Brown
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: April 7
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Governor Of California
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San Francisco County
California
Edmund Gerald Brown
Edmund Gerald Brown Jr.
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When I was Governor, Louis Kelso went out of his way to brief me. I was very impressed, but I was never able to get any of the economists in state government to give him the help his plan deserves.
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We're going to get that little bug before that little bug gets my poll ratings down any further.
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The minimum wage has not kept pace with rising costs. This legislation is overdue and will help families that are struggling in this harsh economy.
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I'd shrink government in a minute, if I could shrink GM, Bank of America, and all these immoral corporations that operate by an undemocratic code, with no soul and no conscience.
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We need to become more unreasonable but in an intelligent way.
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We`re not going to have a backlash. We`re going to build a consensus. And I live in the real world, not the kind of fantasy goals that we would all like, but we would never achieve if we go about it in the blunderbuss fashion that your question would assume.
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Without the truth of the people, politics degenerates into mere spectacle and democracy declines, leaving demagoguery and cynicism to fill the void.
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The great problem with government is that it never goes bankrupt.
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The big lock-up is about drugs. Here's the real scam. The drug war is one of the games to get more convictions and prisoners.
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Nuclear power will be the Vietnam issue of the 1980s.
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After years of struggle, the U.S. Supreme Court today has made same-sex marriage a reality in California ... I have directed the California Department of Public Health to advise the state's counties that they must begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in California
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Banning capital punishment takes us to a higher state of consciousness.
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My principles are simple. Protect the Earth. Serve the People, and Explore the Universe
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Let's draw the boundary early not wait until it's obvious like Hitler's Germany and insist that the state shall never, never, take the life of a person!
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At least when I was govenor, cocaine was expensive.
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I see the day in our own lifetime that reverence for the natural systems, the oceans, the rainforests, the soil, the grasslands, and all other living things will be so strong that no narrow ideology based upon politics or economics will overcome it.
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There's nothing wrong with being an anarchist.
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Equal treatment for children in unequal situations is not justice.
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Everyone's heard about the military-industrial complex, but they know very little about the medical-industrial complex...(in) a medical arms race.
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Automation and technology would be a great boon if it were creative, if there were more leisure, more opportunity to engage in raising a family, providing guidance to the young, all the stuff we say we need. America will work if we're all in it together. It'll work when there's a shared sense of destiny. It can be done!
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